Minor bug when saving an example with "save as."
Hi. I'm new to ChucK and love it so far but I would like to report what I think is a minor bug. I'm on a Mac running OSX 10.8.5. miniAudicle "about" reports: version 1.3.0 (gidora) Copyright (c) Spencer Salazar ChucK: version 1.3.2.0 (chimera) 64-bit Copyright (c) Ge Wang and Perry Cook http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/ Bug report: Note: this is low priority and minor, more in the category of an annoyance. I opened an example then saved it with "save as." Then I edited it then tried to save the changes. A dialog reported the file was read only. I checked the file with info and the file has Read & Write permission. I can overwrite it with "Save As" but Save refuses to save. I suspect that the example was read only and it kept that attribute in some file state variable. If true this is wrong in two ways, first it should have updated the local state to match what it wrote and second it should not depend on historical information. Even if the file was read-only when opened that may have changed. This is a multitasking system and some other task (me in finder for example) might have changed the permissions since the file was opened. I believe the correct behavior would have been to attempt to write the file and check the error status of the write. Best regards and thanks for a wonderful tool. -Steve Morris aka zencuke
Thanks Steve -- thats usually how miniAudicle document saving works, but
there is an internal flag that is set for the built-in examples to disallow
users from modifying them within miniAudicle, unless they are saved to a
different location first. Looks like there are situations where this flag
isn't properly unset even after doing a Save As.
spencer
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Steve Morris
Hi. I'm new to ChucK and love it so far but I would like to report what I think is a minor bug. I'm on a Mac running OSX 10.8.5.
miniAudicle "about" reports:
version 1.3.0 (gidora) Copyright (c) Spencer Salazar
ChucK: version 1.3.2.0 (chimera) 64-bit Copyright (c) Ge Wang and Perry Cook http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/
Bug report: Note: this is low priority and minor, more in the category of an annoyance.
I opened an example then saved it with "save as." Then I edited it then tried to save the changes. A dialog reported the file was read only. I checked the file with info and the file has Read & Write permission. I can overwrite it with "Save As" but Save refuses to save. I suspect that the example was read only and it kept that attribute in some file state variable. If true this is wrong in two ways, first it should have updated the local state to match what it wrote and second it should not depend on historical information. Even if the file was read-only when opened that may have changed. This is a multitasking system and some other task (me in finder for example) might have changed the permissions since the file was opened. I believe the correct behavior would have been to attempt to write the file and check the error status of the write.
Best regards and thanks for a wonderful tool.
-Steve Morris aka zencuke
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